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Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down

Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...

Sep 19, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligen...

Sep 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines

This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently...

Sep 19, 2026 from Isaac Clayton

Personal software blog series

Short post today. I have a little bit of free time as classes are still ramping up. I’ve done a lot of writing, and I’ve worked on a few of fun projects in the past couple of weeks, that I’d like t...

Sep 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Deeper Roots

The funny thing about trees is that the more they spread their leaves, the deeper their roots seep. I came up with that line last night, and I had to do a cliché-check to see if anyone had already ...

Sep 18, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violates Second Amendment

So held Elite Precision Customs L.L.C. v. BATFE, decided today by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Kurt Engelhardt;… The post Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violat...

Sep 18, 2026 from Above the Law

Cravath’s Latest Hire Comes With A Les Moonves-Shaped Asterisk — See Also

Cravath Says Mike Aiello Shares Its 'Values.' About That: Not where I would have gone with the press release, but OK. The G In GPT Stands For Geaux: LSU's football coach used ChatGPT for legal advi...

Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday

Sony’s First Computer

In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action. This led to, among other …read more

Sep 18, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Getting Roasted At The Luau

Read Getting Roasted At The Luau Guest: *Still shouting.* "What the h*** is Kalua pig!" Me: "It's the pork that's been slow roasting in the underground oven. It's a traditional part of—" Guest: "—I...

Sep 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk

A day is short, a life is long

A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now that he's turned 35.Read post ➡ Really enjoyed this post because it's honest, level...

Sep 18, 2026 from Palladium

Don’t Count Out the Country House

The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpting a worthy elite. Scrapping them for bureaucracy might prove a costly mistake. ...

Sep 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Rollenspielszenen: Ein Hund

Fällt mir was an dem Hund auf? *roll* …es ist ein Hund.

Sep 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 18 September 2026

Asdfghjkl Plus Edition Top Story AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then the AIs being researched by the AI researchers went rogue. (The Verge) Someone fin...

Sep 18, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

New Gundam Base superstores coming soon in the U.S., with one opening this month

Bandai Namco’s store that’s all about anime Mobile Suits is moving into new territories. There’s a Gundam-shaped, and also Gundam-sized, hole in the hearts of anime enthusiasts in Tokyo these days,...

Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

GrapheneOS claims Android 17 QPR1 APIs remain exclusive to Pixel devices

GrapheneOS reports Android 17 QPR1 adds app developer APIs that remain exclusive to Pixel software rather than being released to the Android Open Source Project. It also claims that September 2026 ...

Sep 18, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 38/2026

It’s been a busy week, but not as busy as last week, mostly because Monday was a holiday and I got some rest. Uma was away over the weekend with her Atte to celebrate. Belated Ganesha Chaturthi, if...

Sep 18, 2026 from It's FOSS

GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start

GrapheneOS is calling out Google over its negligence in providing certain patches.

Sep 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Nika Riots, Part 3

Emperor Justinian's plan to end the Nika Riots involved bribes. One difficulty about the Riots was that two large and influential rival factions, the Blues and the Greens, had joined together again...

Sep 18, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog

Non-obvious Nix Options

You followed the NixOS installation guide, now what? Awash in a sea of nix options what are you missing in your config?

Sep 18, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Earth Isn’t a Perfect Sphere — But It’s Changing Shape Faster Than Expected

Earth has never been a perfect sphere. It bulges slightly at the equator and flattens slightly at the poles, a shape geodesists call an oblate spheroid — think of a basketball very gently squeezed ...